Avro Lancaster

Here's a look at a couple Lancaster examples I saw on display during my visit to England in February 2008. Photos were taken by Steve Heeb, and are intended as reference to assist model builders in creating accurate representations of this fine aircraft. There are more than 50 shots from a wide variety of angles. I kept the photos pretty big so that they can be used as references by model builders who do not have access to planes like this. Hope these shots will be of some help.

Some captions and details may be included to the right of the photos. I do not claim to be an expert (by any means) but have pointed out a few items that I found interesting. Please forgive any inaccuracies on my part.

Note: these planes were on display in England at the Royal Air Force museum  in London (PO-S) and the Imperial War Museum at Duxford (NA-I), and as part of the restoration for display some details may have been altered from their original operational condition. Both were displayed indoors and sometimes the lighting was fairly poor for certain angles. I hope there is enough detail here to be a help.

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The RAF Lancaster on display at the RAF Museum in London. Scroll down to see plenty of shots of this and another example at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford.
The shots that have a blue pipe-like bracing to the roof are from the RAF Museum.

Shots further down with a more lofty roof with white ribbing is from the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. That museum also had interior equipment samples and turrets. Yes I included pictures of those as well.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This bomb bay looks to be natural metal and steel. This may be a result of a more thorough restoration job before it was put on display or they could have just been less "rugged" than I would have thought. Note that the rack is set up for a big bomb (Dambuster?) instead of having multiple smaller racks.

You'll see that the other Lancaster has an olive green look to the structure in its bomb bay.
 
Hmmm... Goering may have spoke too soon.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Looks crowded in there...
 
 
 
 
 
This bomb bay from the Duxford Museum has more of a olive green color compared to the Lancaster at the RAF museum (seen earlier)

Both are very clean though.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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